Here are some interesting local news headlines from the past few days.
Story 1:
A new festival is coming up and as part of this festival it is customary to dip a statue of Ganesha in the river.
Local environmental activist are upset that the government had ceded to the worshipers and gave a temporary permit to the organizers to do this ceremony in the local river. Originally the government had designated only a small section of the river for this event but that proved not enough space for thousands of worshipers that are planning to come to Hyderabad to perform this ceremony.
The status are about 1 meters tall and cost a few 100 Rs. They are made of clay and when they are placed in the river they melt. This will pretty bad for the environments and will put a lot of trash and plastic in the river.
Story 2:
A local woman had committed suicide when she found out that her husband had cancer. She was a believer in the tradition that a woman should not live long enough to see her husband die. The woman is survived by her son and her husband.
Story 3:
So far in the 2004 Olympics in Athens India has one 1 silver medal. It was a shotgun shooting event. The medalist was quickly hoisted back home for celebrations and was received by many dignitaries at the airport.
It is intriguing that India has only won 1 medal so far but china has won 50+ medals. I would guess that there is not much support from government and businesses for developing athletes. I am sure there are or could be many talented athletes here if there was some infrastructure to support them.